Sentences with phrase «something of a down year»

Sterling himself had something of a down year after exploding onto the scene as a schoolboy; he found himself used in a number of positions over the course of the year and only found his best form in fits and spurts but, when focused and on top of his game, he can be unstoppable in his rampages along the right flank.

By now you've probably picked up on the general consensus that the 2018 North American International Auto Show represents something of a down year for one of the industry's annual events.

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I'm a firm believer that there's always a better way and that's a part of the culture we're trying to federate through the organization so we can celebrate where we break something down that perhaps we were really proud of last year.

These end - of - the - year pledges tend to be either dour commitments to do something unpleasant but healthful like paying down debt, hitting the treadmill, or eating more Brussels sprouts, or vapid self - help - type resolutions like «realize your potential!»

Unless something surprising happens over the next few weeks, 2016 will go down as one of the worst - ever years for Canadian IPOs.

Yet you would like to get something for all your years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, so just shutting the business down is not an option.

That was fine when the firm only employed a handful of people, but about a year and a half ago the head of HR came to Siegel and explained that it was past time they nail down something more formal.

About a year after I started doing this stuff, I broke some big record, a 72 - ounce steak in seven minutes, and after I posted that video I got asked by an eating organization to come down to San Diego in 2008 for something called the Collegiate Nationals, a contest between all the college eaters and university eaters of North America.

In reality, MBS can steal data only from four wallet apps, because MultiBit, one of the supported Bitcoin wallets, has shut down for more than a year, something that MrRaiX didn't even notice.

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

Everything they wrote was either a 30 year old story handed down to them, something they heard on the street, or their own opinions, or in the case of Revelation, a really, really bad acid trip.

You couldn't trust the accuracy or the authenticity of a story written down a month after the supposed happening, much less something written down the staggering 60 years, 100 years, 200 years after all the «jesus said» and «jesus did» parts of the bible supposedly happened.

Danica, I think Jesus said something along the lines of «fertilise it and give it a chance next year, then cut it down».

But, about 1500 years later, on another Pentecost, when again, the Jewish people had grown tired of waiting for the Messiah, and had given up on God, something else came down to the Jewish people.

Any time someone writes something down and proclaims that it is the word of God (whether written now or 2000 years ago), the words should be viewed with some degree of caution.

As the Jesuit high school where I work began to wind down for the year, I reached a point where I needed clarity, something to bring calm to the chaos of the closing weeks and to center me in a reality more timeless than the NBA playoffs.

Newt Gingrich, January 2008 Newt (the irrepressible) hit on something four years ago: closing down the nomination race too early — however much a top contender might prefer that result — is probably not in the best interest of....

The bible is a bunch of fairytales written by 3,000 year old shepards... not something you should live your life by or shove down other peoples throats... I only hope you use 3,000 year old medical practices as well

Hundreds of millions of years of life on Earth boiling down to a belief in something that happened 2000 years ago makes so sense to me, and never will.

It is also impressive that before these true stories about Jesus were written down (in that 27 - 30 year period) Christians would sort of have «story time» and orally present the events we find in the Gospels, and there was absolutely no room for fluffing up the story or saying something false because during that time, people who actually witnessed Jesus» ministry were still alive and would have quickly corrected the mistakes.

And my point about the sun stopping, is that it was something that happened once, thousands of years ago, and it is certainly possible that no one wrote anything down about, with of course the exception that it was recorded in the Bible And when I said the latter, I mean the second of the two things you thought I might be talking about And I was asking who you meant when you said you didn't understand why he didn't kill everyone but Joshua.

There's something special about this time of year when the weather starts to cool down, the leaves turn beautiful shades of orange and red, and there's pumpkins, apples and all other sorts of fall foods everywhere that you can go and pick as well.

«You used to know what time of year something would be up or down.

I wish we could sit down together in my kitchen and each have a slice (or two) of this incredible tart, along with something bubbly to toast three great years!

Was trying to think of something new to do with quinoa, and thought, «I bet Heidi Swanson has some ideas...» And you've combined it with the custardy cornbread recipe I've been meaning to track down since I swooned over it at a picnic last year.

As the FTC points out, for something to be advertised as biodegradable under US consumer protection rules it needs to completely break down into natural components within a year of being disposed of.

This time of year, I'm taking care by slowing down and cooking something everyday (the soba noodle soup was great).

The only explanation for this stigma being attached to a program that cut down the nets just two years ago (aside from people simply not paying attention) is that «Nova has been something of a bipolar presence in March for the past decade.

The 35 - year - old appears to have a child on his left forearm but it is disappointing the legendary striker doesn't have something Arsenal - related on show: some ink of Arsene Wenger's face for instance would go down very nicely next time Thierry...

But mainly, Hamilton was startled during his commentary by something he had never seen before in his nine years of describing the Braves in action: As Aaron turned third base, his solemn face suddenly broke into a bright grin, as surprising to see, considering his usual mien, as if he had started doing an Irish jig coming down the base path toward the plate.

So if something does happen to Cousins, at least we have a solid back - up option this year unlike when Teddy went down and we were staring down the barrel of starting Shaun Hill for 16 games.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

This was highlighted for me this week when Jonny Evans reportedly turned down the possibility of signing for Arsenal, something he would surely have jumped at the chance of doing when Man United sold him to West Brom a few years back.

Still, it was not until a 3 - 0 win over Sunderland in October that they managed to keep their first clean sheet of the season, something that was a concern for City fans after their team had looked so hard to break down the previous year.

personally I have lost faith and patience with him, on the field and off it, he has been a massive disappointment and a let down...... people are going on about his form in Roma, I say he is not doing something he has not dome at Arsenal, he has good games but lacks that consistency and maturity you will expect from a player who has been given the number one jersey for more than 2 years in one of the biggest clubs in the world.....

Raymonde has lived in America for just under seven decades now, but she's French by birth, and something of Marie Antoinette and Josephine Bonaparte has drifted down through the years into her bearing.

It's actually something of a safe decision, as at least WWE knows fans would be down with it, but a safe decision might be what's necessary if they want to delay the whole Roman Reigns» arrival on the big stage by six months or a year or whatever it ends up being.

In something of a throwback to the past few years, both Mercs were well ahead of everyone in a race that won't exactly go down as a classic... in fact, quite the opposite - it was probably the most boring race of the year.

the fact is this man is bringing the Club down, it's almost a generation since we Won something of significance, the FA Cup was not WIGAN who won it right before we did 2 years in a row... If he at least tried then I would say darn....

Always kept his class, never stooped down to their level, every year got his teams to perform to the maximum of their ability, at some point we had chamakh leading the line for us and we almost won the league, so be thankful for Giroud Wenger is building something to win the league and champions league before he's off, the wrinkles on his face proves his desire for winning, relax and lets watch this art unfold... don't keep stressing in the meantime.

Their football at times was wonderful to watch, retaining possession in a flawless manner, but perhaps some of the rust from their pre-season hasn't yet washed off but the decision making of some of their creative stars, Samir Nasri in particular, was poor and like Arsenal teams down the years, the Gunners tried to take the long route in order to score that wonder goal instead of cutting corners and actually giving the Liverpool defence something to think about.

And then before I got swept up in a sentimental ride of it all, I was brought right back down to reality by a six year old learning something new.

So a few years down the road when they are in college, suddenly meeting work that is way beyond them, they can call upon that memory of having tried something that felt like an impossible challenge and having overcome it, and it will convince them that they can do it again.

Many years down the line when I fell out with some of my colleagues and they decided to get poisonous, two of them wrote a book on district assembly elections and the decentralization programme, and inserted in somewhere when it was absolutely not necessary, something about Gwarzo's supposed $ 5 million just to poison my name I just felt sad that Gwarzo should do this»

It's unusual for lawmakers to release statements on the record to say they are indeed running for re-election, but then again this is something of an unusual year: Republican Sens. John DeFrancisco, John Bonacic, Kathy Marchione, Bill Larkin and Tom Croci within the several days of each other announced they would not seek re-election ahead of what's expected to be a challenging year for the GOP candidates running up and down the ballot.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

And yet, looking now beyond the Demos document, whereas someone like Dominic Grieve has demonstrated (following the 7 July bombings and subsequently) a real appreciation of the mutual alterity of all the various communities which make up Britain today, Gordon Brown maintains instead a sort of toned down version of the cricket test (drawn from Roger Scruton) whilst earlier this year Ed Balls, in probably the nastiest single smear since Smethwick in» 64, referred to Grieve on Any Questions as «a friend of terrorists» or something to that effect.

And yet, somehow, each year, it's something that falls out of the budget when final priorities are whittled down in negotiations.

The thread was tied around the grave of the wife of Jacob, who is Rachel in the Bible, and it's something that has been passed down through the years.»

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.